Billionaires in cryptocurrencies have openly announced the loss they suffered during the steep crash in the crypto market due to selloffs in Terra UST and the collapse of its sister token LUNA. Many crypto and exchange founders have shared their loss in this market. Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of the Ethereum blockchain platform has declared that he is no longer a billionaire after the dramatic wipeout of crypto fortunes. Ether is the second-largest cryptocurrency in the market after Bitcoin. Both top cryptos have witnessed a huge correction in their market price.
Buterin on May 20 tweeted saying, “I’m not a billionaire anymore.”
On Sunday, Ether traded over $2,015 currently up by 2.4%. It has a market cap of $243.5 billion at the moment – which is 15% of the crypto market. However, the volume trading in Ether today is down by more than 32.4%.
In the last seven days, Ether has plunged by over 3%. While in a month, Ether fall is over 33%. From its all-time high in November last year, Ether has nosedived by nearly 59%. In a year, the downside is the tune of over 12%.
On November 16, 2021, Ether hit an all-time high of 4,891.70. Now the cryptocurrency is not even half of this price level.
As per a Bloomberg report, Buterin as recently as November contained holdings worth about $1.5 billion in Ether.
However, in the past six months, Ether has made a steeper correction.
Buterin founded Ethereum in 2014. Ethereum is the community-run technology powering the cryptocurrency ether (ETH) and is home to digital money, global payments, and applications.
Further, the report highlighted that as the pandemic raged through India last year, Buterin has donated over 50 trillion Shiba Inu coins to a Covid-19 relief fund in that country. The coins,…
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